Princess Charlotte will “not be encouraged to have best friends” at her new school, according to a panellist on ITV's Loose Women.

The little royal started her first day yesterday at the same £18k a year London school, Thomas's Battersea, that her big brother Prince George attends.

Her proud parents the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge dropped both kids off at the start of the day, and while Charlotte looked slightly shy her dad said she was "very excited".

Speaking about the school on Loose Women, journalist Jane Moore explained why Charlotte won't be allowed to have a 'best friend' at the school, reports the Mirror.

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She said: "It's a really great little school actually for the reasons I think that it really focuses on kindness, it's a really big thing in that school and the pastoral care is amazing.

"There's a policy that if your child is having a party, unless every child in the class is invited you don’t give out the invites in class, which I think is quite a good thing as you don’t feel excluded.

"There are signs everywhere saying be kind, that’s the ethos of the school. They don’t encourage you to have best friends."

Thomas's offered a wide and varied cirriculum, focusing on seven key areas of learning - Personal, social and emotional development, Communication and Language, Physical development, Literacy, Maths, Understanding the world and art and design.

The school's website states: "We believe that the Early Years Foundation Stage is fundamental in instilling positive dispositions towards learning.